Hello lyxers

First of all I apologize because the subject it is a little bit
off-topic but I don't know where I can post a problem like this, please
if you could point me out another forum I will be very grateful to you

To compose figures with nice math fonts I use psfrag, but when I need to
produce a pdf output I have to put the eps file with the psfrag commands
in another lyx file, let's say psfrag.lyx, and try to adjust the paper
size to the eps file bounding box and produce a eps file (using export->
postscript) with the psfrag substitutions. This latest eps file can be
converted to pdf and in this way I can produce pdf figures with the same
quality as postcript files with psfrag. Now when I insert the eps file,
i.e. psfrag.eps, into the main lyx file, lyx produces a nice postscript
in which there is no eps figures, ant the worst thing is that it doesnt
complaint about anything. One year ago this worked for me. Now I am not
able to produce the same result even with the same files generated one
year ago. The only differences I have now are a new teTeX distribution
and several lyx updates. After a lot of tests I am almost sure that the
source problem could be dvips which has changed from v.5.78 to 5.86 or
maybe some obscure parameter exchanging between lyx and the others
programs.

Dos anybody experience similar problems ?
Does anybody know if  dvips 5.86 is expected to be buggy ?
Is anybody using this kind of solution to produce pdf figures with nice
math fonts, i.e. mathscript ?
What other kind of solutions exist to produce figures with math latex
fonts in eps and pdf format at the same time ?

Thanks in advance for your help and keep up the good work
Best regards

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